Psalm 86:14

14 O Dio, uomini superbi si son levati contro a me; Ed una raunanza di violenti, I quali non ti pongono davanti agli occhi loro, Cercano l’anima mia.

Psalm 86:14 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 86:14

O God, the proud are risen against me
As all men naturally are, and as all are without the grace of God; and because they are, they deal in proud wrath: as, through the pride of their heart, they seek not after God; so, through the same, they persecute his people, treating them with the utmost contempt, and as the offscouring of all things. Jarchi interprets this particularly of Doeg and Ahithophel:

and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul;
or "terrible" ^F19 ones, who breathed out nothing but cruelty, threatenings, and slaughter; and who were many, and got together in bodies, and entered into combinations and conspiracies; and whom nothing would satisfy but the taking away of his life, which they sought after; see ( Psalms 22:12-16 )

and have not set thee before them;
they did not consider the omniscience of God, that he knew and took notice of all they did; nor his omnipresence, that he was everywhere, and there was no fleeing from him; nor his omnipotence, who was able to crush them to pieces; nor his justice, which will render tribulation to them that trouble his; nor his goodness, which should lead to repentance; nor had they any fear of him, nor respect to his glory: in short, they were like the unjust judge, who neither feared God nor regarded men, ( Luke 18:4 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 (Myuyre) "terribilium", Montanus; so some in Vatablus, Gejerus, Michaelis.

Psalm 86:14 In-Context

12 Io ti celebrerò, o Signore Iddio mio, con tutto il mio cuore; E glorificherò il tuo Nome in perpetuo.

13 Perciocchè la tua benignità è grande sopra me; E tu hai riscossa l’anima mia dal fondo del sepolcro.

14 O Dio, uomini superbi si son levati contro a me; Ed una raunanza di violenti, I quali non ti pongono davanti agli occhi loro, Cercano l’anima mia.

15 Ma tu, Signore, sei l’Iddio misericordioso e pietoso, Lento all’ira, e di gran benignità e verità.

16 Volgi la tua faccia verso me, ed abbi pietà di me; Da’ la tua forza al tuo servitore, E salva il figliuolo della tua servente.